This is not the new bike sponsor we were expecting...

You should spend £110 upgrading it with 2nd hand ebay parts. Do two 110km rides. One before upgrades and one after. Compare and contrast. Then hang it up on the wall as a trophy.

Love it. Get it set up "safe" and let us know what that cost on top of the original price. Then send it on a proper gravel ride 😀

Nice bike for the price. The loose handlebar is not a defect, it just needs tightening up. If set up correctly and properly maintained, I bet it would make a good commuter bike for many years. You can upgrade some parts if you don't like them, like the seat.

Big fan of the “road bicycle” decal on the frame. In case this object’s purpose was unclear

Way more realistic to me, than a test of a 2 grand + bike.

Set it up properly, tune it up, and see what it can do! No upgrades yet, keep it all stock first and then go from there.

It looks pretty cool except those 26" wheels look bizarre. Amazing when you think of the price including the shipping for all of that manufacturing.

ltwoo is one of the shimano compatible aliexpress groupset brands (Sensah is the other one). In times of limited parts availability, I've put a Chinese drive train onto my daily commuter bike and my MTB as well, and up until now, it works really well I must say

4:21 the way he started made me laugh out loud as well, seems like an amazing guy!

My wife has that exact saddle, including the rear light, and she loves it. She recommends it to her friends. I have to admit, it's comfy on an upright city bike.

What's next...can it actually do a road/mountain/gravel ride?! We need serious, evidence-based consumer testing of the manufacturer's claims 😁

The one day deliveroo shift challenge sounds nice in this machine!

Love the saddle with integrated light. Worth £100 alone 😁

L-TWOO's a famous budget component brand here in Asia. Same with Sensah if you see one.

finally, a bike i can afford in this channel

Love that, funky wheels and the saddles got more padding than my sofa. As for the multi position bars, genius.

That was hilarious......never seen Nick laugh so hard ! Thanks Francis....Peace

Dosnt matter if it’s cheap or expensive, any new bike makes a good day!

How coincidental, my next door neighbour has just took delivery of something similar and asked me to look it over. He just gave me a strange look when I told him I have pedals that are more expensive!

i think you should use it for all the disciplines (road, Gravel, MTB and commuting) and see how it fairs. if it doesnt break, maybe try upgrading it as much as you can/ want

Love it! What a giggle. The ‘aero’ handlebar position cracked me up 😆

Cripes! I needed a laugh, and you gave me a belly load. Loads of fun, thanks.

love the spontaneous bars hahaha. Maybe the next challenge is to upgrade within reason and go for a 30km mixed terrain ride.

Not sure about this groupset....but some of the Ltwoo (R series) stuff works pretty well. Maybe a bit cheap looking, if anything.

Very sturdy, and easy to clean.Excellent product

this is so rad! you should organise a race where everyone has to ride one of these!

Brilliant! 🤣 All the bike manufacturers watching the video will be rushing to their R&D departments to get up to speed with that tech!

I've not seen a multi-tool like that since the 1980's when it was standard with new Raleigh bikes

This is a must follow.... can't wait to see that being upgraded.....

Great alternative video 👊 World bicycle relief next for the bike, once Nick has made it work properly?

I think you may have just found the ideal bike for this years festive 500!

If you had torqued the bolts to the recommended settings (on the instructions you discarded, surely) it would have been fine! Great laugh guys.

impressive video Francis Cade. I broke that thumbs up on your video. Keep up the superb work.

Love it and great aero gains, when you need it. Maybe everesting on the same road you did the BMX Everesting?🤷🏼‍♂️

Probably the best guy to do that review. Top banter

Such a great looking bike. This one is a keeper.

Ace video, reminds me of a few occasions i was lent super cheap bikes, the first i did a daily commute on, within days id bent every part of it (even the frame!!), the second was an off road ride, on ice....super sketchy. reckon you should do a series of challenges, commute, deliveroo, zwift????

This is definitely one of your more entertaining videos!

Amazing video! Thanks for the laughs! 😁 Aero bar position! 😂 1. I would love to see a quick repair/adjusting of things like the brake lever position and of course the brakes/brake cables. And thighten those handlebar bolts! 😂 2. Weight? 3. Do a glorious road ride! 😁 4. Convert it to a FIXED GEAR. Should be easy because it's an old screw on freewheel. :-) Special request: Do some nightriding to celebrate the integrated rear lights. Integrated brake/gear cables are so 2021. 😄

I'm a full time road bike courier in Newcastle city centre - You have to have a go at doing delivieries on that thing!! Good luck up Dean Street hahaha

Good introduction to entry level bikes in south and southeast asia :) ltwoo is pretty popular here as one of the better alternatives to cheap knockoff shimano/sram groupsets, alongside sensah and retrospec.

Upgrade as many components as you can and then enter an event with it lol

I think the top tube looks really cool the way its styled

you need to order another (possibly slightly more expansive bike) have it delivered to a hotel somewhere (parris?), fly out and ride home. Get a couple and take James?

Please announce that AMS is your new bike sponsor and you’ll be doing the rest of the year’s videos on that; bikepacking, everesting, festive 500. The possibilities are endless

Upgrade it to the max: Dura Ace/AXS Red/Super Record, hydraulic brakes, power meter, carbon seatpost, carbon stem, carbon bars, deep carbon wheels on racing tires, a legit saddle, and clipless pedals. Get a real bike fitting! WIND TUNNEL TESTING!!! Then challenge a KOM, see how close you can get.

That's a nice find for the price, Francis, and if you ever need to true those metal, one-piece wheels, just give the wheel a strategic hit or two with a mallet while the wheel is mounted to the frame or fork. And I am all for this type of vid and you know I am a fan of yours, just please, please don't go down the trail of golly gee wilikers, let's ride this down a mountain trail and see if it holds together, yuk yuk. Those vids by others come across as upper-crust putdowns of everyone who gets a bike like that for a birthday or whatever--and we all start somewhere. My first road bike was a Christmas present in '74 and I loved that bike from the Kaufhof in Frankfurt, it was my start of flying through the streets on a ten-speed. And sure, I was a bit jealous of a two fellow bike-commutting classmates to Frankfurt American High School--one had a Gitane, the other a Motobecane--but I was fine with my Rixie. It was fast enough for me to chase mopeds and it wasn't long before a German friend took me to the Bruglemann bike shop downtown and to this day, over 45 years later, I still have a scale-model track bike made of metal, with rubber o-rings as tires, which I purchased on that visit in '76. And my friend Roland was wide-eyed on that bike shop visit because a German man who had been a track star in the Sixties was in there, too.

Whoaaa floating brifter! What a fantastic bike!

Robbie Ferri bought a vintage bike on Ebay and rode 100 miles on it on his channel. I was howling when Nick walked in, excellent!

imagine doing a deliveroo shift on that? yeah make it happen !

I bought a Trek Alpha 1.5 frameset and put it together with a Campagnolo Centaur 11 speed group. I like it better than the 2018 Trek Emonda I once had. Cheaper can be better.

First time watching your channel. I'm like hold on, that's my home city!!! Your mate is braver than me, wouldn't get me riding that thing!

Go out for a gravel ride with Attacus buddies or Nowt Daft Tony. Would be a laugh

LTwoo is actually pretty popular groupsets here in southeast asia. Budget bikes use these groupsets for both mtb and road

Excellent but just can't believe Nick rode that bike without a helmet on!!! Great views of Newcastle.

I like the "dropper" drop bars!

Haha when he bent those bars down…I just couldn’t stop laughing

I've seen cheaper at some stores but usually a 29er MTB with grip shift 7spd. I suppose as a commute to work bike parked in high theft risk areas it would be ok. You should get an el cheapo MTB that's a true test of faith. People have done inter country tours on cheap bitsa bikes.

How the mighty have fallen and hit every step on the way down - Presenting the new bike sponsor "AMS" Road/MTB Hybrid. Joking aside you need to try a race this around some events and see what reactions you get.

That’s one comfy looking saddle!

Take it off some sweet jumps! But really I could see that bike being a good bike for local trips. I feel like I would be far less worried about this getting stolen then some cheap retro bike I would end up falling in love with.

The wheelset looks nice 🤠

That's a lot of gear for £110, and even less when you consider postage included! Seat doesnt really go with "look " of the bike. If they could make it safe that would be a great £110 spend

I see the new bike for Project USA 2nd Edition! I bet the wheels are tubeless ready too.

Oh cool a bike I can afford

I just watched this traveling through the channel tunnel & smiled from Calais to Folkestone 😂😂😂👍🏻🚴🏻‍♂️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 there’s a project for you upgrade it & do Newcastle to Paris bikepacking with James ,Lawrence & some friends for charity 👌🏻🙏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

110 mile ride required - £1 per mile!

This one made me chuckle throughout 😅 Brill video, thanks chaps.......I thought it could have been your new bike sponsor Francis? 🤔.........on 2nd thoughts......nah! 😉.....you could ask Jimmy to sand it down and customise the AMS " superbike?"👍👉👇

Really like to know how you mount your spare wheels to the wall ?:-) currently moving homes and on the hunt for some smart mount walls

Stick on some straight bars and basket on the front. Perfect for short trips to the shops.

Nick made me happy

use this as plattform build a roadbike on the buget, TIAGRA Shifter/breaks, Propper cheap wheels from Shimano etc

Definitely take it mountain and graveling. Then maybe another episode where you take the frame and add high end components to it.

I would recommend to throw everything except the frame assuming the RD hanger is not welded together with the frame, ive worked with tons of these during the pandemic, parts is made from soft metal that you actually bend with bare hands, you could strip the bolts and screws with a torque wrench, plastic from shifters and deraileurs is brittle like egg shells, and would advice to stress test the stem as lot of riders here that have these bikes ended up in hospitals because it tends to break in half on descents and minor road bumps

Looks like it'll make a decent commuter bike for around town errands when working at the studio. I'd probably strip down everything replace all the bolts as in my experience these on cheap bikes aren't very good, rebuild it then I'd fit a pair of my 26 inch mtb wheels on it and go for a gravel ride. After that find the cheapest group set on ebay..

All that came in the box. Kinda impressed.

If you live in a city where theft/vandalism and traffic accidents mean a 3 year old bike is a very old bike indeed this is great. It has just cost me £50 to replace a Carrera back wheel after a fairly minor mishap. It's good to know these cheaper options are out there. I find cheaper bikes are terrible rust buckets so need bathing in WD40 and a basic repair knowledge comes in handy.

The title got me bamboozled I was like Cam has a new video

I shit you not there has been one of these at my work last week and as I walked past I was trying to figure out what it was as I saw the shifters on the top of the drop bars, thought it was some sort of home brew set up. 🤯

Set up properly it'll be fine, my gripe with cheap bikes is the short seat post

Make this bike "project" a mini-series!! 🚲 🚴‍♂️

It's just that you are not the target market of these cheap bikes, you really don't need to mock it, it is not helping the biking community. It's for the people who wants to dip their toe into cycling or people with low income.

The L-woo had me dying laughing!!!!!!!!

Luke on Trace Velo has reviewed L-Twoo products before...... Good luck 😂

Good fun episode. Get Tony on it…and let him try a few daft runs.

Organise a ride out where you supply the bikes, this being one of them. People draw a bike out of a hat 🤣

Would love to see some thoughts on Chinese unbranded frames and stuff if you’re ordering from eBay

Honestly the shipping on that thing probably costs more than the bike which is wild

SICK!

ltwoo brand of the rd is popular here on the philippines because it's cheap,shimano and sram are expensive here so most biker that is in a tight budget chose ltwoo

I like you bike room i have one similar. Unfortunately i cant fit all my bikes in it.

I see a bike packing trip in it’s future

Next time try the 2nd hand market - see if you can do an old bike up ? Like this style of vid

The wheels are actually pretty cool!

Weight it the way it is now then upgrade it with carbon wheels, seatpost , handlebar. New group set etc .. then Weight it again with all the upgrades 🤩 and take it for a ride 🤯🤯

Nice ride around Newcastle. Bike looks a bit small though!

Definitely a Deliveroo Video Francis. Or, biking for beginners on that compared to an entry model “decent” bike 🚴

BIKE FIT TUESDAY WITH JAMES!!